Religion or no religion? [Spirituality & Religion]

What are your thoughts on terrorism? Terrorists believe in the literal meaning of holy scripture and act on what they read @questionWeaver

No they don't

I believe that many terrorists justify their wrong doing by the misinterpretation/literal meaning of holy text i.e. Religious terrorism @questionWeaver https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_terrorism

Lol ... wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything

Terrorism is political, in all aspects.

Media ascribes a religious baseline to performers of terror acts ... but, that is often quite tenuous

I'm not stupid lol, I just copied the first result off google
But yeah, I disagree I think terrorism is multifactoral @questionWeaver

In the US we have environmental terrorists ... these are the worst ... for the most part they are agnostic

Then we have the Antifistas... this group also has no religious association.

Then there is the BLM ... no religious aspect there.

Then we have middle eastern sympathizing terrorists ... these also show only a trace of religious moxie ... but they do have a magnetic attachment to the agnostic European view of America.

Bombers, like the Boston bombers were religious lightweights ... seeing it more as a movement against the cultural evils of American ... once again ... it was culture, not religion driving these two.

Europe and the Middle East view America as evil ... it is not religion ... that is entirely political culture

So ... I have a hard time linking more than a handful of these USA terrorists to youth religious involvement.

I agree with the cultural aspect, that is a major driving force too. I just feel as though may fundamentalists act on what they believe is a will of God. They are brainwashed into a spiral of religious/cultural ideolgy.
I won't get into views of America as I'm not fully aware of the politics

All three of the largest recent mass shootings involved men who never had religious exposure ... one was heavily atheist ... he hated religion

The other two were just agnostic.

Evidence does not lead back to evil rooting out of religion ... it just is not happening.

@deenaljc like any cult